Phnom Penh

Located at the junction of the Mekong, Bassac and Tonle Sap rivers, Phnom Penh has been Cambodia's capital for most of the last six centuries. It retains a rather dusty, small town feel, with crumbling French colonial buildings, sprawling Wats (as the pagodas are known here), and the imposing Royal Palace. Brutal legacies of the genocide that occurred under the Khmer Rouge include Tuol Sleng, the one-time school that was used as a torture centre and has now been preserved as a museum, and the Killing Fields, an area nearby were some 17,000 men, women and children were murdered and dumped in mass graves. Not for the faint-of-heart, these sites are sobering reminders of the Khmer Rouge's brutality'and the rest of the world's failure to intervene.


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